Camille Belmin

Biography

Camille Belmin (she/her) is a researcher in the Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program. She specializes in sustainability transitions and their perceptions from society, population-environment-gender issues, as well as narratives for ecological and social transformation.

She completed her PhD in 2024 in sociology at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, where she studied the links between the energy transition in low-income countries, the fertility transition, and women's empowerment. During her PhD, she worked at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in the Future Lab Social Metabolism and Impacts, where she is still a guest scientist. In addition, she holds a master's degree in environmental economics from Universite Paris-Saclay in France.

She is also a freelancer data scientist and artist. Since 2021, one of her main clients has been SoGreen - a social and climate startup aiming to leverage climate finance into girls' education programs.

In addition to research activities, Belmin also focuses on the interconnectedness of science and art. She has been a lecturer at the Cross-Disciplinary Strategies department of the University of Applied Arts, and is also involved in the Art & Science masters program and at Klasse fuer Alle. Since 2023, she produced and participated in several exhibitions, both in Vienna and Berlin. She also co-organizes workshops, aiming to foster interactions and collaborations between scientists and artists, together with the association Science meets Art.

In 2021, she participated in the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) as part of both the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) and POPJUS programs, and received an honorable mention for her research at the YSSP Awards.


Last update: 26 JUN 2024